Sunday, September 29, 2019

How to do the Store survey in Purpletree Customer Survey for Opencart

The Opencart survey extension enables you to setup survey questions for visitors to your store.
 There are many criteria for the selection of the survey audience. You can take the survey audience vote in the form of the option. You can see the survey result in a form of survey chart and survey report. You can use Purpletree Store Survey extension for knowing your Opencart store service feedback and product quality.

How Purpletree Store Survey work

First of all, you can install Purpletree Store Survey extension with the help of the user guide. In user guide Installation process explains step by step, definitely user guide is helpful for the installation process.
After success full install you can see Purpletree customer survey plugin option show in the left side navigation menu. Click on it you can see two option Survey details and Survey Report. In survey details, you can add a question for the survey and In Survey report you can see survey result in form of chart and report.

How to add Question for Survey

Click on Purpletree Survey in the left side Navigation menu and select Survey details and click on it. You will reach on the Surveys page.
For add Question for survey click on add button. You will reach on Add Question from the page. Here you can enter your question and question answers in the form of option and choose question status. After that, click on the save button top right corner. Thereafter, you will reach the Question list page.
To edit a question, click on the action button in front of the question (to be edited). Here you can edit the question, add a new option, edit option and you can delete option and also you can change the question status.

How to view Survey result

Click on Purpletree Survey in the left side Navigation menu and select Survey Report and click on it. You will reach on Survey Report. For show result in form of chart click on Survey Chart tab.
For show result in the form of the report click on Survey Report tab

How to set Survey

You can add/remove the right column by adding/removing the path ‘extension/survey/survey’ from account layout. Go to ‘Design->Layouts’ edit account layout, add a new root and enter the path ‘extension/survey/survey’ and save the layout. To remove, just remove the path from the layout.
Survey page look like this on the customer side

Friday, September 27, 2019

Top 5 Steps to Creating the Perfect Mobile Checkout

With e-commerce such a critical tool for businesses today, it’s vital to pay special attention to checkout page optimization. Checkout is a bottleneck where the customer makes the final decision — to buy or not to buy. That’s the question: will they complete the transaction, or will they abandon the cart?
Checkout pages are often a necessary hurdle for customers, and digital retailers should apply consistent effort to alleviate any potential stress for their online crowds. Not frequently cited among e-commerce development services, checkout optimization needs to be done cautiously by translating the best practices of marketing and usability into technology. This is subject to intense research, yet even minor tweaks can often produce considerable results.

Why Mobile Checkout Pages Are So Challenging

When mobile commerce first emerged, mobile apps and mobile e-commerce websites often followed the same basic design philosophy as desktop web apps. However, this legacy approach often resulted in poor user experience. Quite simply, small touchscreens work in a completely different way than a desktop screen and mouse or keyboard input.
Fortunately, the mobile app industry is constantly evolving. Facing a fundamental paradigm shift in how consumers interact with brands online, savvy developers started learning how to maximize e-commerce sales through incremental user interface (UI) improvements. Much of that comes down to optimizing mobile checkouts, the cornerstone of digital shopping.
The following is five key steps to take in order to model mobile checkouts according to consumers’ expectations.

1. Understand the Difficulties of Touch Input on a Small Screen

With only a few square inches of real estate, the touchscreen presents numerous UI challenges. The screen is too small and the human finger too thick and imprecise. Buttons and links can be next to impossible to click without cumbersome zoom-in.
Fortunately, this yields some straightforward solutions. Web designers can make buttons easier to click by enlarging them. Buttons should be at least as large as the average thumb pad, and there should be nothing else clickable nearby. As for links, it’s best to avoid them altogether: It’s easier than making them click-friendly.

2. Design for One-Handed Input

It’s rare that people interact with their phones using both hands at once — most of the times because the other hand will be holding a latte. Jokes aside, designing for one-handed input is important if you want to maximize the value of each consumer interaction.
However, one-handed use presents special challenges because the area that the user’s fingers can reach is rather limited, usually to about two-thirds of the screen at most. For this reason, you should first identify the most easily reachable areas and put the critical UI elements there.

3. Optimize Forms for Mobile Use

When possible, forms should be avoided during mobile checkout. One way to address this is to enable auto-fills. Have customers sign up and complete their account information so that their data, including payment, shipping, and personal details, can be automatically filled in. This way, mobile checkout can be reduced to a few simple clicks.
4. Consider Multiple Checkout Pages
When it comes to desktop web apps, the fewer clicks the better. However, with mobile apps, more pages may actually be a benefit. That’s because it’s more difficult to scroll with a smartphone than it is with a PC. While it’s important to keep pages and clicks to a minimum, it’s even more important to eliminate scrolling on mobile e-commerce sites.
To the greatest extent possible, each e-commerce page should contain all the necessary content on the first screen. If more than one screen’s worth of information is needed, it’s best to put it on another page for better navigation.

5. Always Keep Mobile UX in Mind

Front-end technologies evolve as web developers and user experience (UX) designers discover new ways to increase conversions across devices and platforms. With all this accumulated knowledge, it should be easier for your e-commerce development team to grasp mobile UX specifics.

Consider guest checkouts. From a retailer’s point of view, every account signup is great. Once the retailer has a customer’s email, they can send out newsletters and lure the customer with attractive personalized offers. In the long run, customers benefit as well. Not only do they get deals but they can also use auto-fills and check out much more quickly.

Another important consideration is security. Numerous e-commerce websites have suffered serious security breaches that have exposed consumer data. Moreover, people are naturally reticent when it comes to their payment and personal information. By displaying security badges as well as enabling HTTPS and encryption, an e-commerce provider can help customers feel safer.

Conclusion: Mobile Checkout Optimization Pays Off

With sales volumes growing globally, mobile e-commerce cannot be ignored. Smartphones are here to stay, and while they present new opportunities, they also offer distinct challenges. As such, every aspect of mobile user experience should be closely examined and optimized, with mobile checkout being at the center of such optimization efforts.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Categories access for seller Products in Magento 2 Multi vendor

In the Purpletree Magento Multivendor seller can create multiple products and can add any information for the product they want and customers will come to the website and check if that product is enabled then they can buy that product using Website payment method flow and according to products. Products of the website can be in different categories as assigned by admin but when it comes to sellers product then admin has the option to give access for categories admin wants that sellers can add products to that particular category only or different sellers can add products in their respective category only.
First admin has the option to assign global categories in Purpletree Magento multivendor extension settings so that any seller can add products in that particular category only. Means if there are 10 categories in the website and admin wants that any seller can come and add products in only 1–2 categories then admin can give access to only 1–2 categories for all seller so that seller can add products in that particular categories only and not other than that. Admin can set that in Admin > Marketplace > Setting > Configuration > General Configuration > Allow Category for seller.
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The second option admin has is that admin can give access to only particular categories for each seller. In this way, each seller adds products in different categories. Means one seller can add products in Men section only and others can add products in the Women section only. So this way each seller has different options to add their products and admin has only access to assign which category for which seller to assign. Admin can also give access to all categories for all sellers using this option. There is not any restricting but more flexibility.
For admin to assign categories for different sellers Login to admin panel > Marketplace > Manage Seller. Then Select any seller from the list and select Edit Action in front of them.
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Then Click on Assign Category Tab and select category from the tree. Here admin can select any parent for child category to give access to the seller. While giving access please be assure to give access to parent also if you are giving access to any child category so that when the seller adds a product they can see the child category only if there is access to the parent category. Men in the below case if you are giving access to Jackets Category in Men then be assured to give access to Men, Tops, and the Jackets category for the seller to see Jackets category.
After selecting all the categories to be sure to save the data on the click of Save Customer/Save and Continue Edit.
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So on Seller side when seller adds or edit product they can see Jackets categories and can assign as many products they want in that category.
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More details of Multivendor Marketplace for Magento 2 can be found here.

Monday, September 16, 2019

In Opencart multi-vendor When admin can get Commission?



In Purpletree Opencart multivendor Marketplace has one of the best functionality called commissions. In commissions, the admin and seller can share from the vendor/seller product purchase which means the admin will receive some amount of seller product purchase. For example — If the commission is set 5%, price of the product for vendor X is 100 then 5 would be the admin share and the rest 95 is the vendor/seller part in the order.
Admin can set the global commission from the Opencart multivendor Marketplace settings. The Opencart multivendor commissions have some more ways to set the commissions like category commissions.

Permissions set by admin for seller to manage order status?

  • Admin can give permission to the seller to manage their order status from the Purpletree multivendor > Settings > Allow seller to manage orders. When a customer orders a product of a seller if the commission is set by admin then the commission will apply when the order status is complete.
  • With the help of this functionality, the seller can able to manage the order status of their own products and also notify them about the current status of the order.

How admin manage order status of seller products?

  • Whenever a customer order’s the product of a seller if the commission is set by admin then the commission will apply when the order status is complete.
  • The first seller can change order status (set complete). after that admin can changed order status (set complete).
  • To complete the order status to sellers products by seller, Logging as seller goto seller option menu click on Orders >select “All” from “Seller Order status” and ”admin order status” click to “Filter button” then click to “View” button

  • Click to status block then scroll down below select status to complete because if Complete is select in “Admin Status for which Commission will calculate” dropdown from Opencart multivendor Extension settings then need to complete the order status in seller order status also save “Add History” that means that the seller order status is completed.
  • To complete the order status of seller products by admin goto Purpletree Multivendor > Seller Orders > select “All” from “Seller Order status” and ”admin order status” click to “Filter button” then click to “View” button.
  • Click to status block then scroll down below select status to complete because if Complete is select in “Admin Status for which Commission will calculate” dropdown from Purpletree multivendor settings then need to complete the order status in seller order status also save “Add History” that means that the seller order status is completed.
  • Now there is a need to complete the admin order status of admin to generate commission on the seller order status. Go to Sales > Orders > click to view button.
  • Now the commission will be visible in the “Seller Order” Commission column as highlighted below.
More details of Purpletree Opencart Multivendor marketplace can be found here.

Friday, September 6, 2019

Purpletree Multi-vendor Mobile app for Magento and Opencart

The Best Solution for the same is Purpletree Mobile Application for Opencart 3 and Purpletree Mobile Application for Magento 2. Our ready to build apps are the most convenient way for any CMS website which is built on Magento or Opencart to create their apps from us and publish it on the app store instantly.

In the Digitized world, the Mobile app is a must for any business to survive so that any user who wants to buy anything can buy it with the click of a button from their mobile phones. Mobiles are a necessity for every individual, be it a child or an old person. It becomes a need for everyone, for a child it is to study, buy online books or games, for older people, to buy home glossary to furniture.
CMS(Content Management System) provides the platform for seller to sell their products from the website just by installing it on server and user opens the website and for any eCommerce website, the user buys stuff online from the website. Magento and Opencart both are great CMS and do their purpose excellently. For Sellers to sell their products on Opencart and Magento mobile app you can even use Purpletree Marketplace Multivendor for Opencart and Magento, which allows the seller to register on the website and start selling their products from the admin store, no need to set up their website or install CMS (Magento or Opencart).

Now comes the real-life scenario, a person’ works from morning to evening doesn’t have time or you can say less time to open up the laptop or computer and open up the website and search for stuff they want to buy it, rather they prefer mobile apps for the purpose, so that even in a day during work, if they got any spare time or even 5–10 minutes they would like to use it wisely, they would prefer to open up mobile apps on their phone and buy the stuff within a minutes from mobile apps.
Mobile apps are designed in a such a way that if any user comes to them, they load quickly and user would see meaningful content which would be easily readable on phone and buy the stuff from app without having to browse all the website and finding all the irrelevant stuff which is not much useful and hard to read in small screens of phones.

The Best Solution for the same is Purpletree Mobile Application for Opencart 3 and Purpletree Mobile Application for Magento 2. Our ready to build apps are the most convenient way for any CMS website which is built on Magento or Opencart to create their apps from us and publish it on the app store instantly. No need to do any hard coding. All the content comes on the mobile app is coming from API’s we have built specifically for Opencart and Magento.

The Best part of this is that website admin just has to purchase the app from our website and open a ticket with us for communicating further details regarding the app. Just sit for a while and we will build an app for you without any further hassle for you. We might need Logo to be used in the app and Splash screens required for the app. Or we will use it as in your website logo
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Please make sure that before purchasing the app, you already have installed Magento mobile app or Opencart native mobile app on the server and the website and admin for the same is fully working. With the Purpletree Mobile app, you can manage the app data right in front of you from the admin. Open the admin for your website and change the Slides of the slider on the homepage, with just a click away as you change it for a website. We will provide you full documentation regarding the same for further changes which could be useful for day to day changes and can be done right from the admin only.

Some of the following Features of Purpletree Mobile app are-
  • Supports Opencart and Magento Multi-Vendor Extension, with seller and buyer features available in the app.
  • Completely white-label application, having only your brand, logo and name.
  • All data comes from your existing OpenCart website/Magento Website, and application adds its own data also (like banners, etc.) using an admin section of OpenCart/Magento.
  • This is a hybrid mobile application. If you have the source code, it can be launched on all platforms like Google Play Store, Apple Store, Windows Store, etc.
  • Home page with multiple banner blocks available
  • Featured products on home page
  • Special products on home page
  • Category icons on home page
  • Custom logo according to business
  • Custom unlimited color schemes available
  • Custom pages for policy
  • Custom footer
  • Category listing page
  • Product details page
  • Cart page
  • Search page
  • Check out page
  • User dashboard
  • User profile
  • Login page
  • Forgot password
Publishing the Application

  • We will build the application for you and publish it on the PlayStore.
  • After purchase, open a ticket from our helpdesk and we will provide your branded mobile application.
  • You need to have an already existing OpenCart v3/Magento 2 based website. If you do not have that, it can be set up as an additional task.
  • If you want to publish using your play store developer account, you can request for the same also.
  • Source code is also available with extra cost.

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

How Purpletree Social Login extension work in Opencart?

Opnecart social login allows users to connect with one click to your opencart 3.x and 2.x by using their social network accounts. opencart social login extension allows to login and registers with 30+ social networks for opencart. Gather rich information (age, gender, phone numbers, etc.) about your users without requiring them to fill out any forms. Social login increases your opencart registration rate by simplifying the registration process for new users and provides permission-based social data retrieved from the social network profiles. Social login extension saves the time of users when user login and register on the website. When a user wants to register on website then the user will have to fill some data for register and login website. This way is very easy to login and registers your website.

Advantage of this Extension:

1. Gather rich information (age, gender, phone numbers etc) about users without requiring them to fill out any forms.
2. Social media login extension allows users to connect with one click to your opencart by using their social network accounts.
3. Increases your opencart registration rate by simplifying the registration process.
4. Social Login is fully compliant with all European and U.S. data protection laws.
5. opencart social login is fully customizable and seamlessly integrates with your existing login/registration system.
6. Do not take the risk of loosing any users or customers due to outdated social network integrations.

Major features of this extension:
1. Login with the most popular 3 social media(Facebook, Google, and Twitter).
2. Configure each social account by setting up a few authorization details.
3. You can set enable/disable social media account.
4. One-click registration/login.

Installing process:
1. Go to “Extensions” -> “Extension Installer”.
2. Upload the file purpletree_social.ocmod.zip.
3. Go to “Extensions” -> “Modifications”. You should see an entry for this — “Purpletree Social login for OpenCart3.x”.
4. Click on the Refresh button, on the top right of the page.
5. Go to “System -> Users -> User Group > Edit Administrator”.
6. Set access and modify permissions for ‘extension/purpletree_social_login ‘.
7. You see the ‘Purpletree social login’ menu just above the Reports menu.
The callback URLs shown on this page can be added to the Facebook/ Twitter/ Google app.
Following are the callback URLs to be added in the respective apps:
Facebook:
<base_url>/index.php?route=account/purpletree_social_login/fblogin.
Google:
<base_url>/index.php?route=account/purpletree_social_login/googlelogin.
Twitter:
<base_url>/index.php?route=account/purpletree_social_login/twitlogin
After creating all apps and entering the API key data in extension, social login shows on.
login page:
Extra benefits with buying Purpletree Social Login:
1. User can login the most popular 3 social media (Facebook, Google, and Twitter) without gathering extra information requiring.
2. You can set enable/disable social media account.
3. One-click registration/login.